Vehicle-heater and street-lighter.



No. 634,674; Patented Oct. "1,1899.

G. SLATER. VEHlCLE HEATER AND STREET LIGHTER.

(A'pplication filed Mar. 6, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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GARRETT SLATER, 0F KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN.

VEHlCLE j-l EATER AND STREET-LIGHTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent Nb. 634,674, dated October 10, 1899.

Application filed March 6, 18 99.

To ctZZ whom itfrncty concern: I

Beitknown that I, GARRETT SLATER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kalamazoo, in the county of Kalamazoo, State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Vehicle-Heater and Street-Lighter, of which the following is a specification;

My'invention relates to heaters which are intended for attachment 'to the floor or bottom of vehicle-bodies, pendent beneath the same, andopen into the body through the floor in a manner to admit the heat beneath the feet of the occupants of the vehicle.

The object of my invention is to construct a simple and cheap device which can' be'easiiy filled, cleaned, and cared for, the oil-holding part being detachable from the body of the heater and the chimney andbody made in a manner that light .will ,be thrown from beneath the vehicle. out each side, front, and rear of said vehicle, as well as furnishing the heatfor the comfort of the occupants.

A construction embodying'my invention is described below and pointed out in the claims. j I f Inthe accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is an elevation of the heater and lighter complete; Fig. 2, a sectional elevation on lines 6 e and. c c in Figs. 3 and-at, showingthe interior; Fig. 3, a plan of Fig. 1; Fig. 4, a section on line it a in Figs. 1 and 2, looking from a point above; Fig. 5, a section on line 1: o in Fig. 2,

' looking from a point at the left and showing ride.

abroken portion of .the wick-tube in'elevation and detached from the heater; Fig. 6, an elevation of a brokenwick and showing means of raising it,said figure being enlarged; Fig. 7, a section on line 3 s in Fig. 2,1ooking. from a point above and showing the.wick raising lever broken; and Fig. 8 is a dotted elevation of a vehicle-body, s'howingthe position the heater and lighter occupies when in use.

The lighter and heateris hungin av hole throughthe floor .9 of the vehicle-body 10. The vehicle of course may be a cutter, sleigh, buggy, or car, or'anything in which people Fig.8 shows a dotted vehicle-body and the position the heaterand lighter is to oc the wall 25, as in Fig.

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beneath the door 9. This floor 9 in Figs. 1, 2, and 3'is shown broken.

The body 12 of the heater and lighter has a flanged vovertop 13, resting on the floor 9, and is screwed down on said floor, as in Figs. 2 and 3. The body 12 has four bulls-eyes 14, 15, 16, and 1'7, one on each of four sides, to let the light shine "through, as explained farther'on. This body 12 also has a row of holes 18, through it on about a level with the top of the wick 19 to let in air and a row of holes through the wall near the top and beneath the vehicle-floor, through which the bad fumes of the burning oil escape. These holes are shown at 20. 13 referred to has holes 21,-leading into the Vehicle-body, for the escape of the heat from 'theheater and lighter.

The oil-holding part 22 of the device has a circular depression inthe top at 23,1oounding a central hole 24 through said part 22, said depression being boundedby the walls 25, 26, and 27, the latter being a floor to said depression, Fig.2. Beneath the inner edge of this floor-wall 27 is a circular wall 28, extending to the bottom of the oilholding part 22. These walls 25, 26, 27, and 28 are all integral with each other. The wall 25 at two opposite points, as in Fig. 2, has an indentation formed therein, making thereby a shoulder or catch 29. 7 The'lower end of the body 12of the device sits detachably in the depression 23 near I At the points where the shoulders 29 are located are springs 30, which are attached to the wall of the body 12. In these springs 30are formed shoulders 31 for catching under the shoulders 29 of the wall 25.. .Thesesprings 30 from their shoulders 31 pass into the wall .of the body 12 through a hole in said wall and thence a short distance upward andthence outward through a hole in the wall of the body 12 andterminate in a turned-up end '32 for pressing the finger against to force the springs 30 inward and disconnect their shoulders from the shoulders 29, when the oil-holding part 22 can be lowered, and thus disconnected from the body 12 of the heater and lighter. Thus the springs 30. remain with the body 12, and the part 22 The flanged overtop is conveniently detached from said body and no openings are made in the part 22, causing it to leak oil.

A tube 33 extends from a point approximately on alevel with the row of holes 18 of the body 12 to the bottom of the oil-holding part 22 and constitutes the inner wall of the wick-tube, while the walls 26 and 28 of the part 22 constitute the outer wall of the wicktube. The wick-tube is thus circular in form, Figs. 4 and 5. The wall 28 has a series of holes through it (shown by character 34, Figs. 2 and 5) to supply the wick 19 with oil from the interior of part 22. The wick 19 is circular or tubular in form like the wick-tube, Figs. 4 and 6. A band 25 surrounds the lower end of the wick 19, and upward from this band project a series of prongs 56, the upper ends of which prongs engage the wick when raising it, Fig. 6. This feature is quite similar to those in use; but I have a means connected with it which enables one to raise the wick from a point aboveas, for instance, by a person in the vehicle. It consists of an arm 36, attached to the band 25 and extending outward through a vertical slot 37 in the wall 28. The arm 36 moves up and down in said slot when raising and lowering the wick, Figs. 2 and 6. A plan of the arm 36 is shown broken in Fig. 7. In Fig. 1 is an upright shaft 38, the lower end of which is made in the form of a screw 39, which screw passes into a hole in the end of the wick-raising arm 36. Turning this shaft 38 one way and the other raises the arm 36 or lowers it, as the case may be, and hence raises or lowers the wick 19. The upper end of the shaft 38 is in one of the heatescaping holes in the plate 13, and the shaft hasa ring 40 in the upper end. When said ring is down in the hole, to which location it may be tilted, it is out of the way, but by raising it to the position in Fig. 2 with the thumb and finger it is used to turn the shaft 38. This shaft passes through a little tube 41 projecting upward from the floor-wall 27, to which said tube is attached. As this tube 41 is as high or alittle higher than the upper surface of the oil the oil which enters the tube cannot escape.

The chimney consists of two concentric tubes, the lower end of which chimney surrounds the upper portion of the wick-tube proper and extends thence upward to a point just above the upper boundary of the bullseyes 14, 15, 16, and 17 of the body 12. The outer one 57 of the concentric tubes detachably rests upon the floor-wall 27 of the depression 23 of the oil-holding part 22 and has an offset 42, which brings the portion surrounding the wick-tube close to said tube. The inner one 43 of the concentric chimneytubes detachably rests upon a ledge 44 on the inner surface of the inner wall of the wicktube, Figs. 2 and 4. Fig. 2 shows the ledge. The inner tube 43 also has an offset, which brings the lower portion close to the inner wall of the wick-tube. (See 45 in Figs. 2 and 4.) By this means the upper portion of the chimney above the flame is larger than the lower portion and gives the flame 46 proper room. In the inner tube 43, and thus being in the vertical central hole 24 leading through the wick-tube and chimney, are two partitions 47 and 48, one above the other, Figs. 2 and 4. These partitions have a hole through them to allow the air to pass through, but still retard said air, as compared to the eifect if the partitions were not used, and in many cases no doubt the partitions need not be used. The chimney tubes have holes 49 through them near the flame 46 and the upper end of the wick-tube to'furnish air to the flame. In someinstances I have found it desirable to supply the chimney-tubes through out with like holes 50, Fig. 2, and for the same purpose; but this may be a matter of choice or governed by the apparent needs.

The outer chimney-tube 57 isprovided with windows 51 of glass or mica or some transparent material which will allow the light to shine through. There is one opposite each bulls-eye 14, 15, 16, and 17, and thus the light shines through the glass 5'2 of the bul'lseyes. The light thus shines on both sides-of the street or track or surface which the vehicle is traversing, also behind,and,what is very important, directly on the street beneath the horse'(when one or more are used) from the rear forward. Thus the whole territory occupied by the vehicle and team, and beyond said territory even,is lighted up by alight near to it coming from beneath the vehicle, which is very desirable for the driver, besides at thesame time the occupants of the vehicle are kept Warm.

When removing the oil-holding part 22 from the body 12 for the purpose of examination, filling with oil, or trimming or changing the wick, &c., the wick-tube, chimney, and wick-raising apparatus all come outwith it, and this fact and the detachability of the chimney-tubes make it all very convenient to manage. Of course as the catch-springs are attached to the closure-wall of the body 12 they remain with said body when the oilholding part 22 is detached. Should thispart 22 be set down on the ground,.it rests on the bottom projections 53, and thus will not prevent the air from passing up into the hole 24 and smother the light.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. Theeombination of a vehicle-body, the body of the heater and lighter pendent from beneath said body, the oil holding part having the upper central walled-up depression, with the lower end of the heater-body attached in said depression, the upright tube in the depression and communicating with the oil-chamber, the wick-tubes, a band for surrounding the wick and bearing the prongs IIO for engaging the wick, the lateral arm attached to and extending horizontally from the band and provided with a hole in its outer end, a

Vertical shaft passing loosely through the upright tube and having its upper end accessi ble Within the vehicle-body, and its lower end being in the form of a screw and passing through said hole in the end of the lateral arm, substantially as setforth.

2. The combination of the heaterand lighter body, an oil-holding part having the upper central walled-up depression, in which the lower end of the heater-body is detachably attached, the concentric wick-tubes, the inner one of which is provided with a ledge on its inner surface, the concentric chimneytubes, the lower end of the inner one detachwalled-up depression within which the lower. 'end of the heater-bodyis detachably attached,

said heater-body having in its wall-closure a bulls-eye at each side and one at the front and one at the rear, a wick-tube provided on its inner surface with the ledge, the concentric chimney-tubes, the lower end of the inner one detachably resting on said ledge of the Wick-tube, the outer chimney-tube detachably resting on the floor of said depression and being provided in its opaque closure, with a transparent part at each side and in front and in the rear, said transparent parts registering with the bulls-eyes in the wallclosure of the heater-body, whereby the light and its windowed opaque chimney are entirely inclosed and said light is concentrated in the four directions only beneath the vehicle-body, substantially as set forth.

In testimony of the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

' GARRETT SLATER.

Witnesses:

LEVI F. Cox, EDWIN W. Daron. V 

